Photography has changed the world dramatically, by the use of being able to document important iconic events and figures. We’ve all heard the phrase, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” This is especially true when we come to find out how important and useful the photograph is to our modern day people. The word, "Photograph" as we know it, was first used in 1839 by Sir John Herschel. In the same year he published the entire photographic process. The word is derived from the Greek words photo meaning “light” and graph “writing”. Therefore, it is said that photography is the art of painting with light.
Several decades ago, De la Roche, following his analysis, made a startling prediction in his literary works, where it was possible to capture images of nature on a canvas covered with a sticky substance, providing a mirror image. This image would be permanent after it dried in the dark. De la Roche could not imagine this story would become true several years later.
Two Frenchmen Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre are considered the true discoverers of photography. Developing the first techniques and chemical processes which have allowed pictures to be recorded. Then came decades of continuous technical development. With the introduction of the first Kodak camera in 1889 it reached to develop a stand that could hold up substantially today. Only after an electronic revolution, when digitization brought forth new photographic techniques. The Frenchman Joseph Niece Nicéphore (1765-1833) is regarded as one who was able to capture images as the first in a photosensitive layer. He took a "camera obscura", [a long-known apparatus; the images could be projected onto the outside surfaces.] and managed to capture these images on silver chloride paper. However, they were not resistant to light and faded after a short time.
In 1826 Niepce managed to produce the first permanent image or photograph [the view from the window of his study.] But, with exposure times limited to about eight hours, it was impossible to photograph people or moving objects.
Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1787-1851), a successful theater artist learned of Niepce's work and became fascinated that he became his partner, trying to find a way to shorten the exposure time. Louis Daguerre, a pioneer of photography after years of trying Daguerre discovered that even with a short exposure, silver plates created a latent (invisible) image that can be fixed by vapor deposition of mercury. Louis Daguerre exposed a photographic plate, and then stopped the process but because the weather did not play along, he put the plate in his chemical cupboard. When he later got out, he discovered that it turned to a picture. He removed piece by piece all the chemicals out of the closet and put more into a fresh photo drive to find out what has caused the chemicals to take that effect. At the end there were only a few drops of mercury left. This, was understood Daguerre, the riddle. Treated with mercury vapors photographic plates require shorter exposure times than untreated. He succeeded on numerous attempts, the exposure time of four minutes in summer and 15 minutes to reduce the winter. Daguerre and Isidore Niepce, the son of the late pioneer completed in 1839 a treaty with the French government, which thereby obtained the right to use the so-called "daguerreotypes" of the public present. The Government considered the discovery of such importance that it is satisfied that promised a boost in popularity. Pictures taken with the "Daguerreotype", however, unique. This problem eliminated William Henry Fox Talbot to the so-called "calotype," a paper-negative-positive process. Quality and brilliance were not indeed to be compared with the "Daguerreotype", but it was possible to make multiple copies of an image. This drawing shows a plate camera from 1866, stands next to a photographer. The amazing thing is the size comparison; the camera including the tripod is almost twice as large
In 2013 Photography is usually taken for granted with all our gadgets and gizmos we have today we don’t give it much thought. In 1927 photography that we come to know today was created by one man’s sudden inspiration and only two unexposed plates. Ansel Adams was that man that changed photography forever. Let me explain how it all began. Ansel Adams was fourteen when he got his first box camera. Ansel had been reading a book about Yosemite Valley, which was 150 miles from his parents’ San…
“All photographs are accurate. None is the truth.” Richard Avedon (1923–2004) The topic Photography ( myth, truth, fiction, lies or deception ) Title ideas Photography, truth or fiction? Photography, truth or fiction? A look into documentary photography and photojournalism. In the 21st century do we now accept prefer fact to fiction ? 'Documentary photography, fact or fiction?' Is photography a manipulation of the truth? What could it involve in the discussion? Photo manipulation…
How did photography grow and become so popular over the years? Introduction Pictures are everywhere and used for different things my passion photography has many uses such as the different lighting, the history in photography and the different types of photography.. They are used to show what is in such as style and also what is going on in difficult societies. There are many types of photography worldwide; it also goes way…
Good afternoon everybody, I have chosen to research Kitlers article on Photography and media. To start, I would like you all to take a minute and imagine living in the Renaissance period, back in the 14-1700’s. A world where there were no such things as computers, there was no Internet and the idea of a telephone hadn’t even begun to evolve. This was a world where if you asked someone if you could take a “selfie” with them so that you could upload it to “instagram” they would probably send…
different ways of seeing for different periods of history. Every image reflects its own time. Only because of images we can learn our history from the past. In the Stone ages people did not know writing, but they could transmit the events of their lives through the drawing the pictures. From the scratch marks and pictures on the stone we can learn how they lived, what they ate, how they hunted, what difficulties they experienced. Development of history changes the methods of painting by which the images…
Huiting Zhou An Annotated Bibliography on the Photography of Jacob Riis Szasz, Ferenc M., and Ralph H. Bogardus. "The Camera and the American Social Conscience: The Documentary Photography of Jacob A. Riis." New York History 55.4 (1974). Print. In this article, Szasz shows that the impact of Jacob Riis in his field can be understood not only by his encouragement to establish better community among the poor but also by his photography. Riis’s contemporaries tend to idealize slum life as “quaint” or…
heavily changed and influenced numerous technologies. Advances through chemistry allowed photography to come about and also allowed the production of cheap steel. These are just some of the numerous technologies that of which were able to come about and advance through the use of chemistry. The first technology discussed was imaging technology starting with photography. At first the general idea of photography was relatively simple such that certain materials transformed from exposure to light…
The History and Technology of Digital Photography The History of Digital Photography One of the greatest inventions of our time is digital photography. The world of digital photography has come a long way since the 1950’s. It has become a way for humans to communicate and express themselves. Digital photography lets us do this immediately and with limitless possibilities. This instant technology allows us to share photos with anyone at all in the world, thus enriching our lives. The history…
For my IBL I decided to look at the photography and life of Lewis Hine. Lewis Hine was born in Wisconsin in 1874 and attended the University of Chicago in 1900 where he studied particularly in childhood education. After college he was hired as a teacher and for field trips he would take his kids to poverty stricken streets and he would document the poverty. The National Child Labor Committee hired him in 1908 where he began to take thousands of pictures of child labor. His works proved effective…
during the Harlem renaissance. One of the most appealing photographs is that of the proud black couple in raccoon coats at the street of Harlem[1]. This is called “couple with Cadillac” and it was taken in 1932. Van Der Zee remains outstanding in photography despite the…